Clues Starting With b Boss losing face in dog-tired state (9) Business that's going to set up partnerships? (6,6) British cooking takes a bit of skill with containers (7) Bowl over after over, then departed following wicket (4) Base of guerrilla den in Ecuador revealed (7) Break free, when she gets rid of husband over headland (6) Battle — scared? 60% run away (5) Ban covetousness? Not entirely (4) Baron (who's Australian); Dame (who wrote) (7) Beer (unknown quantity) and Spanish wine (no OJ) in old city (10) Broadcaster to decline to show spy film (7) Boring and reserved, slip inside for a drink (3,6) Buy off a very soft moderate (7) Bread filling that is dull (5) Bring together tips for making ancient thatched cottage homely (5) Benefit (4) Bohemian learner joining a foreign religious house on holy island (14) Bachelors hurt inside (4) Bay's home, standing firm (6) By sound of it, put up with a swine (4) Bone of the upper arm/elbow (7) Bit of a wedding cake? (4) Bird that can cough things up? (4) Bird heard when crossing river (4) Be victorious (3) Babies 2 27, rears on noisome nappies (6) Bum has soon, when whipped, come clean (7) Bounce around sphere? One would be 2 27 (7) Bull with stick through heart after matador’s finale (7) Bale occasionally finishes matches (6) Behold! 'New joke' at first originated in ancient past (4-3) Breakfast and lunch combined (6) Baleen — enable who? (anag) (9) Beam supporting floorboards (5) Ben-Hur's wheels? (7) Beginner (6) Braveheart producer, director, star (3,6) Boatman's following silent film, a universal horror (5) Buster Keaton missing on second shooting of scene! (6) Boatman has appeal but not much (1,3) Butt of humiliating mockery (8,5) Badly wounded by a penetrating object (5) Brawl (5-2) Bloody fantastic job (without catch)! How did you get it? (3,3,7) Balletic movement not for Depardieu (3) Bob carries jug round? Impossible! (2,3,2) Believers back from America? (6) Boy's name — academic bigwig (4) Baits burrowing creatures (7) Broad-brimmed cowboy headgear (3-6,3) Be reluctant to act (4,4,4) Big Apple folk (3,7) Butcher left these with a set of choppers (5,5) Bits of cold strange US rubbish (6) Bloke with revolutionary knack for incantation (6) Boar's feet prepared for Sunday lunch? (5,4) Begin small pastry dish (5) Baker's dozen minus one (6) Board (3,2) Brandy (6) Bowling game (8) Bounder showing angora creation — knockout all round (8) British film and television award (5) Barring Connery's lead, classic version of Bond (5) Bungling tail captures spy concealing note that's irrelevant (10) Battered half of old sign seen in cataclysmic weather (5,8) Broad range — crumpets (anag) (8) Black — then hurry to get clean? (5) Biographer, dandy following old boy around (7) Boy with good musical number (4) Bands of special soldiers capturing a woman (6) Be jubilant (5) Box containing items of value (8,5) Barn-dwelling birds (4) Barren area (6) Bulky (5) Break from proceedings (6) Brand the Goddess of Pop 'a looker'? (8) Bandage up (6) Because, for example, ultimately it's true (7) Buffalo Bill's entertainment (4,4,4) Being pulled along (2,3) Bulletproof (8) Beginnings (4) Blender (4,5) Bottom edge (3) Bottom (4) Brave and heroic deeds (7-2) By embracing life at sea, it doesn't seem as long! (4,5) Bet against queen making film (5) Bias shown by some key economic world leaders (4) Burning everything around motorway (9) Badly-behaved nursery rhyme boy (7,6) Because of (3,2) Brilliant nurses opposed to support from just one side (10) Bank, embroiled with lies, could go under (8) Bent (5) Barrack (6) Bluish green — duck (4) Back down (7,3) Backing pub name — on reflection like the Oracle (9) Battle to get space at bar (9) Bird in a murmuration (8) Bathos (10) Bolly, say (informal) (8) Budgie holder? (4) Brock's residence (4) Beatles' number? (4) Bill of fare (4) By mouth (4) Bee's middle (6) Boy, by complete coincidence, not female (4) By the way, threw out mild oath (7) British awfully jealous about top-notch French wine (10) Bullies offering bribes? (4,2) Bad person above all others joins up (8) Bind with something circular (4) Books with blank pages to be filled with photographs or stamps, say (6) Bottle finally explodes in intense fire (5) Ballroom dance of Cuban origin (5) Building entrance unknown for a long time (9) Behind (5) Borrow cooler jacket (10) Bubbles (4) Be quiet about a theologian and American holy men (7) Bully the French soon (4,2) Burrowing shellfish (4) Bob dreads pageboy? (7) Being a lush country with no king after one fails (9) Badly bruised (5,3,4) Bodily secretion (6) Breathe in/out and have a long sleep (9) Bitter quarrel initially talked about after surgeon pockets tip (8) Batty or Ephron? (4) By a large degree (13) Break one's word (9) Bird's periodical food (6) Bill sounds cheap for pictures (8) Broadcast making one smile (4) Blockhead (7) Bill's on cover but nothing inside newspaper (7) Butler juggling with claret — it's trajectory is clearly visible (6,6) Broadcast spoils instrument (4) By which to read chart left by a member? (5,4) Breaking bail — one's excuse? (5) Break new ground (8) Bed (or table) cloth (5) Burden I bear where fares are collected (4,5) Brusque king tucking into chop (4) Brownie groups bagging pound coins, primarily obsolete currency (9) Buddhist leader embracing naughty dance (7) Breach (7) Bird damaged on a road (7) Bone with small top joined to bone with no name (7) Band's journey in the Home Counties (6) Bit of southern rubbish (5) Boy born unwell (4) Badge of honour (5) Betrayal (7) Body of written work of the highest quality (5) Beautiful old lover, who in Paris is given designated place (9) Belonging to Tory team, class thinking of no one else (13) Become suspicious (5,1,3) Become ill again (after initial recovery) (7) Back tooth (5) Be in accord (5) Brother's hairstyle (7) Blasted policeman stops old press chief (8) Book related in 2, which does cover the basics (6) Briefly show murderer turned evil (8) Bartolomeu ----, Portuguese explorer associated with the Cape of Good Hope (4) Bulky; onerous (7) British Virgin Islands, say (3,5) Bread for example not fresh, but quietly accepted (6) Beat time in a trance (4) Baseball player's pet singer? (7) Bucket (4) Bound (to do something) (7) Badger short of phosphorous compound (5) Bird or insect beside plant stem (9) Bird — tit (5) Birds in tree almost caught by dogs (9) Bird after song for competition (5,5) Bottom on turf, great tackle (4) Bird laugh (4) Birthmark — EU vans (anag) (6) Bible story (7) Bath Oliver’s last in box (4) Boss with certain way of working to absorb pressure (7) Bob’s one hard song to perform (6) Butterfly and moth expert (13) Be the source of (6) Betrothed (7) Bring to ruin: loosen (4) Bite in rage (5) Black durable hardwood (5) Beyond ordinary understanding (6) Bullfighter charged with endless love (8) Ballpark figure, perhaps, to reset mini-cameras (11) Bill on Ireland coming up later (9) Brain case (7) Break small piece off end of thick raised surface (4) Bother an educator and an iconic rebel (8) Burdened (5) Block entered back to front (5) Bound in leather, instruction from the top university (5) Baking powder ingredient (5,2,6) Bowler is in agreement, almost (8) Boor tackling hard in 2 (8) Brief joy on loo — 2 (6) Become established (4,4) Block out tabs containing content of YouTube (7) Biden, for one, raising flag, getting black mark (7) Bargain — short cut? (4) Border, Scotch or Welsh sheepdog (6) Be contrite (6) Bridge carrying a waterway (8) Believe this may be on the cards (6) Beach pebble or rock (9) Bearing working at home with a bit of light music (8) Building with many storeys (4-4) Breathing in (8) Back socialist after U-turn, right-wing politician being offensive (10) Bit stuck in lift that hasn't opened, one giving the illusion of movement? (2,6) Bully races out where it all kicks off? (2,6) Brother I see sent up after relative losing head in prison (10) Blight on the plant? This needs fencing (10) Black suit (6) Boodle's mark (4) Brambles not right as an environment for raising wildlife and fools (10) Being old, will droop (4) Brew beer, only half jug (4) Barren region with dearths — area's suffering (6,6) Beam when brat is beaten (1-3) Branch of mathematics (8) Boatman involved in terrible ordeal, but winning (8) Betray (informal) (4) Bewildered (9) Big game reserve visited by a Member of Parliament? (5,4) Black widow, say (6) By shop's entrance, father catches sick on back of expensive shoe (10) Bowie number succeeded in the future, 'Tom' having faded out? (6) Benefactor (5) By way of (3) Be gentler when developing this? (5,4) Bit of elegant gold instrument releasing cold alcohol (3,2,3) Brown's legislation upset teachers as a body (6) Bawdy (9) Brewing empire's leading wine opened first (9) Bargain (6) Body protection for one who's paid to slice one (5) Be sure to turn round Monsieur's tongue (7) B movie opening and closing cinema presentation to create mood (8) Beastly male, one covered in dye (6) Brazilian rosewood — Canada jar (anag) (9) Brass that looks like gold (6) Builder (5) Bits and bobs (4,3,4) Be a high street stationer — it's a stable job (9) Bows and arrows maker (8) Basic religious authority in Orthodox Judaism (6) Blood Brothers, for example (7) Be averse to getting into pedalo at headland (6) Bitter and sour, say, from Left cutting benefits (8) Bug (4) Bags (8) Bewitching (8) Big test; torture (6) Bed that can float (4) Boycott a cost rise that's outrageous (9) Boiled rice occasionally described as golden? (5) Bird present in plant by lake (4,3) Build up for goal in free flowing soccer (9) Bad habits, clinging to old opinions (6) Black China tea (5) Beats (6) Brainchild (4) Black market stocks book (5) Become completely exhausted through overwork (4,3) Bind anew (5) Baked food on many levels? (5,4) Bravo for Mike in rush for game (8) Belly (informal) (5) Badly alarmed by North Dakota, an unreal place (9) Be of service (6) Bivouac (4) Beach resort city on Monterey Bay, California (5,4) Bit of an old dinosaur! (6) Ballyhoo (9) Band, very quiet otherwise, introducing piece of music at appropriate time (9) Beat gas protection forecast (13) Blue briar possibly offers a conduit for rainwater (8) Beach sunbathers might appreciate this vodka cocktail (3,6) Burden of responsibility (4) Become thick (4) Broadcast porn deal matters for pair that grind (6,3,6) Books Lineker, say, without support (6) Beginning to beat out precious metal, striking head (9) Brussels supports aid arrangement for so long (5) Beware (4,3) Bring about (havoc?) (5) Be in accord (6) Bizarre (5) Bank in decline with lake drying up (4) BBC 1990s sitcom written by and starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson (6) Beyond the Fringe, for instance (5) Bagging 500 in opening spell of bowling is excessive (8) Burning tar by lounge (6) Business venture (10) Bum; yomp (5) Bill joins in peaceful song (8) Branch of learning — I have to be expressing personal ideas (10) Best available (7) Brainbox (5) Black businessman ran scams to cut cash on delivery (6) Blood-sucking member of the spider family (4) Boat operators (8) Badly-behaved youngster (4) Burns Night dish (6) Being drug-free, one avoids exploitation (3-4) Bond's capture of copper puts things straight (6) Brochure (8) Broadcast desire to land and soon lose consciousness (2,3,4,1,5) Brilliance — panache (7) Bluster; card game (4) Best alfresco function? (5) Boozer drinking hooch finally fired (4) Bishop put on garment over part of nun's habit (4) Burst of firing — filled USA (anag) (9) Birds and fish-eating mammals devouring rejected haul (8) Bar worker? (6) Building's high point (7) Boring tool (5) Bloke largely innocent, on reflection, but keeping the truth hidden (5-2) Brought up rule with listeners (6) Being worthy of respect? Conservative's looking embarrassed (4) By proxy (Latin) (3,3) Blameless (8) Balls of rice with raw fish wrapped in seaweed (5) Brendan and his dog? (5,6) Biographical sketch is for dossier (7) Behind with payments (2,7) Bath church's room (5) Breathes noisily (5) Begin to use file, for example, starting off prison escape nicely (4) Baltic capital (7) Buoyancy aid (4,6) Big Apple borough (6) Bisque ingredient (7) Blow up (7) Bullion bar (5) Business chief pockets £50 in big fiddle? (5) Bull's neighbour has meal first off (5) British recalling space traveller's instrument (9) Bulb, one often lit up around foyer (7) Boutros Boutros-Ghali's repeated conclusion (5) Biblical letters (8) Book size (6) Before retailer collapsed, Tesla quit (7) Buy a meat loaf stuffed with root vegetable (3) Because of tedious play, is leaving (3,2) Boyfriend gets nod to go ahead with surprise (4,4) Briefly consider getting earring (4) Bad hat — lascar (anag) (6) Bye-bye (informal) (2-2) Being in drink here admitted him to the 19 1 (10) Buy (8) Breathe out (6) Becoming void (7) Bind (3,2) Bouquet garni component (4) Broadcast overlooked film (4) Blackish fluid secreted by a cuttlefish (5) Be careful (4,4) Being gutless, meddle with Bowie's arrangement (12) Begin to understand (6,2) Basic failure to meet storytelling quota? (10) Brief from foreign leader spreading fake news (6) Boozer (3) Being off guard, catch a lot on the tube from one sitting (5-5) Blow cover revealing criminal record (3,5) Best possible (7) Branching out from a common centre (6) Bird in Brazil is scarlet, primarily (4) Back in Newquay, a pasty I served up, as it were (2,1,3) Blunt rejection (6) Blood-curdling (4-7) Burnt sienna (5) Bundle of fibres that transmit sensory and motor impulses (5) Bar for the stars? (5,3) Bishop with recurrent anger repeated complaint (8) Be attracted (to) (9) Branch of medicine in US city set record for foreign money? (9) Bad way to start my statement of intent (3) Bitter container (4,3) Born to talk banally about methane, say (7,3) Bishop's pawn has work with English opening (4) Befitting an angel (8) Better description of a tsunami, possibly (4,6) Bury (5) Bare-headed (7) Broken rib dressed in iron material (5) Bewilder (7) Broadcast Queens' vital matches (11) Batsman's innings ended — accidentally fell (5,4) Be obliged to work with hands when caught (4) Bubblier fans running for top prize (4,6) Bogeyman in book heading off to trap tardy deer, perhaps (9) Bishop's formal headdress (5) Boring documents that one is required to read (4) Boy in church worried his rector (9) Bark (4) Bad-mouth — unwanted stuff (5) Bottle deliverer (7) Books about prophet revised once as signs at a crossing (7,7) Bananas, biscuits and bangers (8) Be converted (4,5) Broken and useless (5) Banquet activity (8) Blair on a trip to a hall that's this grand? (8) Bury group with cross (9) Bit of timber in a solid floor (7) Blue (4) Bubbly (6) Blue-pencilled (6) Because round leg not quite right, one's attached to arm (8) Band ultimately entering part of joint? (6) Buttonhole (6) Better (6) Boiler fixed by unknown bloke once offering staff work? (7) Battle of Orleans all over the place (7) Bemoan, mourn (6) Belittle — Degas pair (anag) (9) Break in children's game (4) Bewildered prisoner must be integrated (8) Bird seen in the museum (3) Bad person about to be given notice (3) Bad gent and I get into trouble arguing? (8) Batting stint (7) Begrudges (7) Beam in sports venue back to front (4) Between blue and violet (6) Bear was very loud during short life (5) Being about to happen (9) Bound to succeed at this field event? (4,4) But there is no whisky in this bar snack (6,3) Baby's bed, which is let down from top of building (6) Bit scared after agent oddly disappeared (6) Boy has to be fresh out of shower for spicy stuff! (5,6) Bodily hole (7) Bold Hamlet (anag) — put into long-term storage (10) Bell cracked by a US art critic? (12) Bloodsucker's taken in current girl (6) Become leader in take over? Retire first (4,4) Brutal (7) Be greater than (6) Bring back old American guitar (3) Back on form in poetry (7) Bad hair day, having abandoned a city in the Middle East (6) Break in activity (6) Brutal (6) Barrel transporting vintage spirit across island (3,4) Board agree to progress (3,2) Band of singers or such at work (6) Begin (3,5) Bete noire (4) Better grind out time in the middle here? (5,6) Believe me, if you have a hearing impairment … (4,2,4) Black for one short layer of coal (3) Bound to show confidence in audition (7) Business and/or personal contacts (7) Bits of stone troubling the lions (8) Become more accessible. (4,3) Brew drink in fresh coffee, finally (9) Being from another planet burrowed into immense surface (8) Begin again on problem, last of three (6) Brass instrument (4) Become tiresome (4) Back support (5) Ban logo devised for saucy city (7) Big shot the Spanish value gets award from Sweden (5,5) Break extraordinarily fine case for jewellery (8) Bandit (9) Brexit negotiator swaps note with Republican fence (7) Bishop walking and picking fruit (9) Business relationship (6) Blackbird's dish? (4) Boasted (7) Bighead Romeo coming in — he loves being on the job (10) Boon's partner (5) Brewery product (3) Break up site calling for abolition of imperial measure (9) Brilliant and popular among cast (5) Brewer's cart (4) Bureau (sought by politicians?) (6) Banter (10) Butt end (4) Barely impartial (4) Bury ready for French to take (9) Blue revolutionary left lodge (5) Branches (6) Be critical of the woman cuddling pet (6) Beginning (5) Biennial international golf tournament (5,3) Bound work with scarlet cover (5) Block on street possibly encloses new access for passengers (7) By contrast, the benefits associated with feathers turned right over (6,4) Bleat about elderly relative ('skinny thing') (6) Bloom (6) Blame left's incompetence, with election finally lost (9) Become more involved with semi-empathic understanding (7) Burial places — French wine (6) Borne (7) Boatman's one to advance as a paradigm (5) Bit of bread offered to newt, which Ken Livingstone liked (3,4) Beloved as earth to Spooner, that's obvious (5,2,3) Boatman put one out skilfully (4) Built to last (6) Brilliant stone (5) Better country with 20% less stock (7) Ben Hur's wheels? (7) Bird that lays the largest egg (7) Brief petty quarrel (4) Belligerent, truculent (10) Ball game originating in Canada (8) Boxing prize money (5) Bracelet worn for ornament or identification (6) Bringing forward time of festival causes problem (6) Bloke eating last of butter before cheese (7) Broadcaster I attack, one in African country (8) Bound to get journey underway? (6) Boo-boo (5) British monarch with the second longest reign (8) Boot out (4) Blast, say, dynamite left by sailor around vacated emplacement (9) Bent solver caught by question (5) Burgers, pizzas, hot dogs etc (4,4) Buffalo Bill's family name (4) Bare-foot martial art (4-6) Baby carriage (12) Brilliant display of technical skill (7) Bawdiness (4) Big band playing around Long Island, performing without rehearsal (2-7) Bird will resist eating nuts, initially (4) Bungling (5) Book of daily entries (5) Box in occasional Scottish players (9) Barman orders reconditioned grand to be wheeled in (7) Broadcasting old and new melody (2,3) Boost newsworthy people to some degree (4)